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Showing 1 to 20 of 107 for “"cultural resources"”.
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Cultural Resources in the United States: What Messages Are We Sending
… highway markers point the general public to the cultural resources of the United States. The present study used Rogers' diffusion of innovations theory and social marketing theory to better understand the level of support for archaeological, historic and cultural preservation. Current messages …
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Building communication interventions for children with severe disabilities on cultural resources: an action research enquiry
… grounded in the transformative paradigm, was on culturally determined processes that can increase and enrich the communicative participation of children with severe communication disabilities in an isiXhosa language and cultural context. The aims of the study were: * to identify culturally …
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Acculturation and psychological distress among first generation Asian Americans : the roles of acculturative stress and social-cultural resources
… the mechanisms for this relationship. Social-cultural resources such as friend and neighbor support may have a beneficial impact on mental health, and acculturative stress such as the level of family conflict and perceived racial discrimination would be expected to be risk factors (Kawachi & …
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Seeing History In A Wilderness Landscape: Valuing Cultural Resources During the Establishment of Congaree National Park, South Carolina
… studies understood and discussed the history and cultural resources of the Congaree Swamp. During the early advocacy of the 1960s to the planning for the 1988 boundary expansion, proponents of creating a preserve characterized history as distant and having little physical impact on their natural …
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Of His Bones are Coral Made: Submerged Cultural Resources, Site Formation Processes, and Multiple Scales of Interpretation in Coastal Ghana
… approach to the investigation of submerged cultural remains related to historical maritime trade. Remote sensing surveys in 2009 led to the identification of three sites related to maritime trade, adding significantly to the two previously known sites, which include a circa 1650 shipwreck, …
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Archeological Inventory and Monitoring Plan
… responsible for the protection of natural and cultural resources within its boundaries. While natural resources have received much attention in Dinosaur, cultural resources have not received the treatment they are due. A Cultural Resource Management Plan (CRMP) is currently being designed in …
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Gamtos ir kultūros išteklių panaudojimas kaimo bendruomenių plėtrai /
… reveal a tendency of using local natural and cultural resources more effectively. For this purpose a research carried out in a settlement in Plungė district helped the authors of the paper identify the main needs of the local residents in terms of economic, natural and cultural factors. …
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SITE FORMATION AND CORROSION PROCESSES: A Comparative Analysis of Condor and Stormy Petrel Wreck Sites
Submerged cultural resources abound in North Carolina waters, and two Civil War blockade runners built, launched, and sunk within months of each other provide an opportunity to review site formation processes through a multi-disciplinary lens. The incorporation of historical, electrochemical, …
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Socioeconomic Status and Youth Participation in Extracurricular Arts Activities
… of, investment in, and mobilization of certain cultural resources are significant predictors of children's advantageous social development in both institutional settings and interpersonal relationships. Several theories and empirical analyses illustrate the importance of children's leisure-time …
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Leveraging Open-Source and Crowdsourced Data to Evaluate Spatial Justice in Cultural Planning
… in examining just planning outcomes. Focusing on cultural planning as a domain and Los Angeles as a case study, I examined the utility of data for evaluating the fair distribution of cultural resources. This research addressed the following question: What can open-source and crowdsourced data …
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The discursive shaping of intellectual ownership: the case of James Watt and Josiah Wedgwood
… an analysis provides an outline of the principal cultural resources that Watt and Wedgwood mobilized to defend their commercial interests.
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More Than Road Trips and Rangers in Flat Hats: Recognizing Millennial Perceptions of the National Park Service to Effectively Engage the Next Generation of Park Stewards
… parks exist explicitly to protect and interpret cultural and historic resources. It is this perception that the NPS only cares for Western natural wonders that impedes the agency, especially as it looks to the future. If the National Park Service is looking to cultivate the next generation of …
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Race, the Internet, and the Hurricane: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Black Identity Online During the Aftermath of Hurricane Katrina
… the World Wide Web, is a network of social and cultural sites. Black Americans (""Blacks"") lag behind other ethnic groups in their adoption of the Internet. Previous research speculated that this was due to the Black communities' difficulty in obtaining equipment or training to use the Web's …
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Sustainable development of maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine
… to develop a conservation policy for maritime cultural heritage in the Gulf of Maine. This dissertation first examines the effectiveness of existing laws, policies and preservation programs available for the protection and conservation of maritime historical and archaeological resources in the …
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An analysis of the role of historic significance in decision making at public horticulture institutions
… on how public gardens fit into the context of cultural identity. Given that cultural landscapes form an important part of our heritage and public horticulture institutions are cultural landscapes, the purposes of this research were as follows: first, to analyze historic significance from an …
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RECENT TIMBERING ACTIVITY AS A VARIABLE IN PREDICTIVE MODELING
… used to assess the likelihood of identifying cultural resources in a given area for decades. A county-wide predictive model has not been created for any county in the state of Georgia. This research applies what is known about predictive modeling to Henry County, Georgia and assesses its …
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A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TRIBAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE PROGRAM IN MONTANA
… allows tribes to obtain control over their cultural resources which had previously been held by the state historic preservation offices, through the optional transfer of some or all SHPO responsibilities involving tribes ‘cultural resources to the tribes’ themselves. While limited research …
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A PRELIMINARY EVALUATION OF THE NATIONAL PARK SERVICE TRIBAL HISTORIC PRESERVATION OFFICE PROGRAM IN MONTANA
… allows tribes to obtain control over their cultural resources which had previously been held by the state historic preservation offices, through the optional transfer of some or all SHPO responsibilities involving tribes ‘cultural resources to the tribes’ themselves. While limited research …
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Open Space Planning; Utilizing Green Infrastructure to Preserve Community
… and consuming large amounts of natural and cultural resources. Significant progress has been made in reorganizing community planning towards sustainable development practices. However, these alternatives still work under the misconception that there is a disconnect between planning open …
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